On May 4, 3:57 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> En Mon, 04 May 2009 10:27:49 -0300, Amr <amrbek...@gmail.com> escribió:
>
> > I've been spending the last few days experimenting with Tkinter. The
> > grid manager is nice and easy to use, but I have found that I am often
> > having to specify padx and pady options to every widget I add to my
> > grid. The way I am doing it is to create a dictionary:
>
> > paddding = {'padx': '1m', 'pady': '1m'}
>
> > and then apply it to the grid method using **padding.
>
> > However, I was wondering if there was a way of setting default padx
> > and pady controls for the grid, so that I can just call grid without
> > having to specify any extra parameters.
>
> You have to call grid() once on every widget, so adding **padding at the
> end doesn't appear too bad to me:
>
> label = Label(master, text="Hello world!")
> widget.grid(row=3, col=1, **padding)
>
> What about a function:
>
> def grid_with_padding(widget, padx='1m', pady='1m', **kw):
> widget.grid(padx=padx, pady=pady, **kw)
>
> If you want an uniform padding:
>
> def add_padding(container, padx='1m', pady='1m'):
> nc, nr = container.grid_size()
> for i in range(nc):
> container.grid_columnconfigure(i, pad=padx)
> for i in range(nr):
> container.grid_rowconfigure(i, pad=pady)
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina
Hi Gabriel,
Thanks for your reply - I like the method you mention at the end,
using grid_columnconfigure and grid_rowconfigure as I can use that to
apply setting to the whole grid at the end. I'll have a mess around
with it.
--Amr
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